A man has died after a car went off a wharf and into \u014camaru Harbour last night.<\/p>\n
Police were called to Holmes Wharf about 5.30pm with reports a vehicle had gone into the harbour, but no one was seen to resurface.<\/p>\n
The body of the 69-year-old \u014camaru man was found with help from local divers, police, Fire and Emergency NZ and ambulance staff. <\/p>\n
FENZ said it sent two crews from \u014camaru and did not need to cut through the vehicle to pull the man out. <\/p>\n
Police said CPR was carried out immediately, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with the man’s family during this difficult time,” police said.<\/p>\n
A scene guard remained at Holmes Wharf overnight. The Serious Crash Unit and other specialist groups were due to examine the scene on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Police said their enquiries into the circumstances of the crash were ongoing, and they wanted to speak to anyone who witnessed it.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency NZ and St John have been contacted for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after a car went off a wharf and into \u014camaru Harbour last night. Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-580387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}